Oute gata oute zimia

Oute gata oute zimia (Greek: Ούτε γάτα ούτε ζημιά) is a 1954 Greek black-and-white film directed by Alekos Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos.

Plot

Businessman Lalakis Makrykostas (Vasilis Logothetidis) is married to beautiful and much younger Popi (Ilya Livykou), who's being courted by Nikos Koutroumbas (Lampros Konstantaras). Popi is becoming suspicious of Lalakis' frequent business trips that take him away from Athens.

While Lalakis is away on yet another supposedly business trip, it is revealed by a series of coincidences that he's in fact on a romantic getaway to Thessaloníki with his mistress. Popi decides to give him a taste of his own medicine and agrees to go to a romantic getaway of her own with Nikos. Nikos takes her to a village in Boeotia called Thymaria, where the station-master Stelios Molfetas (Mimis Fotopoulos) is an old friend of Nikos'.

By coincidence, Lalakis and his mistress, Lolota (Rena Stratigou) have missed their train to Thessaloníki and are spending the night at the station-master's home as well. Both illicit couples, the station-master and his wife (Margarita Lamprinou) sit down to a very uncomfortable dinner; Popi pretends she's Nikos' wife, nearly convincing her own husband that she's just his wife's doppelgänger. The couples eventually retire for the night; Popi and Nikos drive back to Athens in the middle of the night whereas Lalakis, eager to return to Athens in order to confront Popi about her infidelity, is forced to make his way back by horse and carriage and public transport.

Popi arrives home first and establishes an "alibi". Lalakis arrives shortly after her but can't prove anything. Right when Popi is starting to ask him questions on his stay in Thymaria there's a knock on the door; it's the station master returning Lalakis' wallet, which had fallen out of his pocket the night before. The station-master also mentions that Popi and Nikos also left early (the implication being that they never slept together) and that Popi left her watch behind. Lalakis, now having concrete proof of his wife's infidelity, offers to return it to her and takes it from the station-master. However, instead of confronting Popi, he just tells her that the jewellery shop has returned her watch. After a moment of awkwardness, they both start laughing, essentially agreeing to forget the whole thing.

References

• Finos Films
• Greek Cinematic Centre/Center

See also

• List of Greek films

External links

• Oute gata oute zimia at the Internet Movie Database